Thank you. It took quite a while, but it rides like a dream. That Monarch makes it feel so much different than the RP23 I had on thee before. And with that front end out 1 more degree from the headset it is a manual machine!

everyone was mocking me at first (locally) regarding the fork. Such a nice bike with such a shitty fork etc etc

I opted for the vengeance coil fork without even HSC or LSC, wanted to keep it as simple and hopefully as maintenance free and trouble free as possible

one dude kept asking me if he can get that fork at Toys R Us, that's where i musta bought it

joke is on them now, now that I had the bike for a week or two and I'm pushing after I dialed it in, I'm sitting on their asses when they are on DH bikes, also starting to really put in some very fast downhill times on strava on the bike. When I am sitting on their asses now I keep yelling at them, "move over or feel my vengeance". will take a while for that to get old for me.

the fork is very good. It performs well after I made adjustments, at first it was way to mushy and soft and blew through travel way too easy, Finally im running it with the Xfirm spring, quite a lot of rebound, and 20 PSI more pressure than than their website recommends (don't ask me how its a coil and air fork at same time, news to me, didnt realize that when I got it).

Its giving me predictable 7 inches of travel, using the whole range of travel, only bottoming it out on really big stuff now or when I screw up coming short on stuff.

I really like it, only fork I prefer is my zocchi 888 dual crown on my jedi. But thats not really a fair comparison. The Vengeance is performing way better than every fox fork I have ever owned.

Here's my budget RM-7 build. I built it for the local bike parks and lift served riding. I don't do much to any uphill rides so I went with a single speed setup. Frame and fork feel very balanced. I just need a rear brake, run the chain, and cut the seatpost down then it will be ride-able.

V10 Carbon with alu. rear

I use my bike primarily for trail riding, but am looking forward to a trip to AZ this year for DH at mount lemmon, as well as general trail riding, and hope to make it up to NH from CT a couple of times for DH next season.

x-large (6' 3.5" 245 lbs) - 38 lbs 8 ounces as shown

Schwalbe Fat Albert 2.4 front and rear with 4 ounces of stans in each tire. Will run Maxxis DHF with tubes for DH.